Happiness is just a word to me   And it might have meant a thing or two   If I'd had known the difference      Emptiness, a lonely parody   And my life, another smokin' gun   A sign of my indifference      Always keepin' safe inside   Where no one ever had a chance   To penetrate or break in      Let me tell you some have tried   But I would slam the door so tight   That they could never get in      Kept my cool under a lock and key   And I never shed a tear   Another sign of my condition      Fear of love or bitter vanity   That kept me on the run   The main events at my confession      I kept a chain upon my door   That would shake the shame of Cain   Into a blind submission      The burning ghost without a name   Was still calling all the same   But I just wouldn't listen      The longer I'd call   The further I'd crawl   The further I'd crawl   the harder I'd fall   I was crawlin' into the fire      The more that I saw   The further I'd fall   The further I'd fall   the lower I'd crawl   I kept fallin' into the fire   Into the fire   Into the fire      Suddenly it occured to me   The reason for the run and hide   Had totaled my existence      Everything left on the other side   could never be much worse than this   But I could go the distance      I face the door and all my shame   Tearin' off each piece of chain   Until they all were broken      But no matter how I tried   The other side was locked up so tight   The door it wouldn't open      Give it all that I got   And started to knock   Shouted for someone   To open the lock   I just gotta get through the door      And the more that I knocked   The hotter I got   The hotter I got   the harder I'd knock   I just gotta break through the door      Gotta knock a little harder   Gotta knock a little harder   Gotta knock a little harder   Break through the door